Re: [PATCH -mm 11/14] bootmem: respect goal more likely

Johannes Weiner
2008-06-05T08:23:56Z

Hi,

Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:

> Hi.
>
>> >>
>> >> Could you boot a working image with bootmem_debug in the command line?
>> >> Perhaps seeing the usual bootmem usage on this box gives a hint what is
>> >> broken.
>> >
>> > Ok. I'll try it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> I attached bootmem log with related message.
> If you realize anything, please let me know.
>
> Note:
> In this hardware configuration, node 1 to 16 are "memory less" node.
> They may be hot-added later.
> So, there are some messages of "no start_pfn".
> But, for_each_loop of bootmem skips them because ia64 kernel checks
> "memory less" node and skip to call init_bootmem_node().
> I think it is not cause.

Thank you very much. I think I spotted the bug and will provide an
explanation and a patch when I am awake again.

Hannes